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NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1875. 
MY WINDOW GARDEN. 
I will tell you something of my window garden. 
I have about forty plants, and am never 
without blooms a day during the year. I 
wish so much that you could see how nice 
and pretty I have them arranged. My 
house is a small cottage, one room of which 
has a southern and eastern exposure. I 
have the walls decorated with some very 
beautiful pictures. In one of the windows, 
I have a box suspended about half way 
down, four feet wide, four feet long, and 
four inches deep, which contains twelve or 
fifteen eight-inch pots; I have the outside 
of this box covered with lead-colored cam¬ 
bric. in box plaits, which gives it a very 
pretty appearance ; then under this box I 
have a table, which contains about the same 
number of plants* only larger ones. Then 
in the other window, which has an eastern 
exposure, I have my largest plants, and 
such as do not need, a great deal of sun. 
I also have suspended from the top of each; 
window, a hanging basket, containing the 
most beautiful vines you ever saw. I don’t 
know what it is called by florists, but we 
down south here call it the Ruins of Rome. 
At one side of the window, I have a large 
pot containing a Madeira- vine, which I 
have trained up the side and over the top or 
the window, which, with its large leaves 
and beautiful flowers, gives everything a 
most charming and beautiful appearance. 
My flowers are the envy of all my neigh¬ 
bors, many of whom have flowers and are 
wealthy; but as cold weather is here, they 
have consigned them to their pits (or 
graves as it were), where they will remain 
during the very time we need flowers most. 
I tell them there is no pleasure in having 
them, for the only time they do them any 
good, is in the summer and spring; then 
we have so many annuals which are so 
much more beautiful, and do not need near as much at¬ 
tention. 
I have been very successful with my plants, never 
being troubled with any kind of insects; I will 
at some other time tell you bow I avoid them. I tell 
you there is nothing like having a home (though it be 
small), well embellished and adorned with flowers 
and pictures. It makes everything look so cosy and 
home-like, and has a tendency to keep our husbands 
at home at night. My husband, being a bank clerk, 
is absent all day, hut when he comes home at night, I 
tell you we have a jolly time all among the flowers, 
with our Hope and our Ivy, into whose little hearts I 
have already installed the love of the beautiful. I 
never saw children love flowers - so well in my 
life. 
I will now tell you of what my collection consists, 
viz. : Night-blooming- Jessamines, Fuchsias, Hy¬ 
drangeas, Begonias, double bronze, gold, silver, tri¬ 
color and scented Geraniums, Ivy Geraniums, Smilax, 
Cacti, Calladiums, Coleus, Carnations and Callas— 
quite a varied collection. Don’t you think so ? Those I 
that are now in bloom, are double and single scarlet 
Geraniums, one Ivy Geranium, night-blooming Jessa¬ 
mine, Lantana, Fuchsias aud Carnations. My Hydran¬ 
gea, Smilax, and several Geraniums, pink and white, | 
will be in bloom in eight or ten days. Hoping that I 
have not wearied you, and that I will be welcome 
again, I bid you adieu. 
Birdie Arnett. 
Augusta, Arkansas. 
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